Peeing, Pants, Puddle

Yes it's official. I have the bladder control of a five year old. Maybe more like a two year old. Today I had an absolutely fantastic day with friends in Seattle, for our traditional, 'Eat Seattle' and it was so much fun, with so much laughter and good conversations and so forth.

But perhaps there was a bit too much laughter and not enough peeing that happened? The photo below would be proof of that. And oh I wish that my friend had leather seats instead of upholstery...


Most people would be mortified at such a photo, or even such a story of having peed their pants in someone's vehicle at the age of 26. But let me tell you, I find it HILARIOUS. And I hope you do too. Because all I can do is keep laughing at it. So hopefully it brought you some joy as well. More photos from eat seattle coming soon!!

Capilano, Cousins, Canucks

Last week, my relatives from Castlegar were in town. My great-uncle Henry passed away before Christmas and they decided to have a memorial for him in Abbotsford since that's where he lived a lot of his life.


I have always loved it when any of them have come to visit. We all connect really well. It's funny because my mom used to babysit her aunts kids, and then they babysit us as kids. I also got to be a flower girl in Deb's wedding so that's really special as well.


We clicked well and had a lot of fun. Went to Capilano Suspension Bridge for the day on the Friday and beat the rain which was nice. Did you know that as a BC resident, if you pay for a day's admission (26 bucks), you get a year's pass? Which is expensive for one visit, but not for the whole year! So I'm excited to go back in the winter because they always do a lot of Christmas lights. And they're opening up a new cliff walk exhibit which also sounds pretty great.


My aunt Carol really hates her picture taken. This was the nicest one I took of us. The rest she refused to co-operate :)


Thankfully Deb and I share the same joy of taking beautiful photos. Or funny ones. With signs.




I love BC. And places like this that are surrounded by woods and it just feels outdoorsy. yeah it's touristy, but that was okay for this day.

And I love my mom as well. Because she rocks. And I love our friendship. :)

The bridge was super scary. Watch out.

Watch out for slippery surfaces. Thankfully I did not fall.

What do you do on suspension bridges?? Run of course!

Strangely enough, everyone slipped by this sign. It wasn't even wet really.

Sadly Deb had the worst fall..

Oops.

Hooray for suspension bridges!! They actually have a really cool exhibit that has little suspension bridges between trees. It's called treetop adventure and it's actually really cool. Great views as well.




My mom tried having a bigger wingspan than the eagle. At least she has a wider wingspan than the goose. Go Mom!




Unsure of what slugs do at slug crossings, but we probably fooled quite a few people into thinking we were giant, colorful slugs.

BEAR HUG!

White Spot before the game! Mmmmm!

All in all, a wonderful time with family and getting to know them in a new way as well. It was good to celebrate Uncle Henry's life with those who came to the memorial. I really appreciated hearing all the stories from his life. Always inspiring and humbling to hear of the amazing legacy people have left before us.

Cheesy, Corny, Church

Every time I pass a cheesy/corny church sign, there are a couple of people I text. it is an ongoing thing and a few more people have joined in along the way.

For Christmas, my friend Kristen got me a church sign calendar. One church sign for every day of the week! So every morning, when I wake up, I roll over, rip off the next day and text it to my church sign peeps. Kristen's boyfriend also knows how much we love the church signs, so when he found "The Little Book of Church Signs", he bought it for us. :)

So, I thought I'd share a few of my favorites here:

"The platypus proves that God has a sense of humor"

"If you want to hear God laugh, tell him your plans."

"Welcome to C H _ _ C H! What's missing? U R!"

"Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families."

"Be an organ donor-give your heart to Jesus."

"Give Satan an inch and He'll be a ruler."

"Forbidden fruit creates many jams."

"One birthday isn't enough - be born again!"

"Now open between Easter and Christmas!"

"Our congregation is like fudge: mostly sweet, with a few nuts."

"Sin: the original smoke detector."

Painful, Paint, Party

Yesterday was a wonderful day tinged with slight trauma (from my perspective) at the day's end.

Started off meeting a friend for breakfast, then a friend for tea, then a friend for lunch, then a friend for tea. And then I came home for a while to do some work, and then headed to a friend's for Girls' Art Night!

What an excellent idea to all get together and be creative! We had paints and canvases and even some writing and coloring pages. I'm not incredibly artsy. In fact, in elementary school, I used to take my art projects home so my mom could do them for me. I hated art. But I'm creative I think. So I brought my camera along to take some artsy shots of us being artsy! :)

I even decided to try a couple paintings as well. The first one I like, the second one is unfinished and not so much.. but hopefully in the future I will finish it and it will be an incredible masterpiece. :)

Megan posing with the modeling glue, which gives texture to paint.. was fun to try out!



melissa has been working on this butterfly painting for a while and it's beautiful! very cool! :)



This is my painting. I like it. I have three strips of tape on there that I pulled off later, making three distinct thick white lines through it which adds something. Didn't take a pic of the final product, but oh well.


loved megan's painting!
All in all a wonderful day and evening! Afterwards, Megan and I picked up pizza and went hot tubbing. That was fine and dandy until it started pouring.. i quickly grabbed our clothes and towels and ran them under cover and then went back to enjoy the hot tub. I stepped on something spiky but thought nothing of it, until an hour later when I couldn't put any weight on my heel without being in excruciating pain.

So after a couple hours in the hot tub, a small hole was dug in an attempt to get the foreign object out of my foot. Nothing could be seen but there was a large bump. And every time I took a step, it felt like all the edges were cutting inside my foot. Not fun.

So I headed home, and on the way hit a baby rabbit which was quite sad.

This morning I woke up and kept going back to sleep, because I knew if I got out of bed, I'd have to go to the clinic and it would probably hurt. So, I hoped that the next time I woke up, I would be miraculously healed, but it wasn't so. So off to the clinic I went.

After a 2 hour wait, I got the bottom of my foot frozen (and wow that hurts..). Then the dr. pulled out the glass which was bigger than she expected. And then I got a tetanus shot just in case. Sigh. What a day. Now my foot has a bandage and is very tender.

But I am glass free and can walk again so that is delightful!! Interesting adventure for the day that I was definitely not expecting.

Morale of the story: wear flip flops when walking in the dark outside. Wow. I feel like I've learned so much. haha. Glad I can laugh at it all, because it seems so random!

Lock, Laugh, Lady

This story gave me a good chuckle this morning in the Province paper:

A 911 dispatcher had to tell a caller how to unlock her car. The unnamed woman called police Sunday to say she was locked inside her car at a suburban drug store.

"My car will not start. I'm locked inside my car. Nothing electronic works. And it's getting very hot in here. and I'm not feeling well," the woman said.

The dispatcher asked the woman if she was able to manually pull the lock up on the door. THe woman said she would try, and then, she said, "Yes, I got the door open."

-written by Orlando Sentinei


Uh.... wow. Are that dependent on technology that we cannot even pull our door locks up manually? So, next time you are trapped inside your vehicle, just remember, a little lift will do the trick!! :)

Man, Mustache, Merriment

The other day in my learning class we had a presentation where we interviewed a learning theoriest from the past. My friend Kristen interviewed Clark Hull, who was me for that moment. I think I did a pretty good job looking like a man with my stunning glasses and my mustache. Haha.. I keep laughing at this photo because it is quite funny. Thought you might enjoy it too. :)

Whistler, Wine, Winter

Lindie came out to visit on Sunday and we started the visit off with a trip to Red Robin's which we do every time as Lindie loves it. Then we headed to Vancouver where we bought caramel apples and then went to the Canucks game. They ended up losing, but it was still fun!
On Monday, we decided that after classes, we would head up to Whistler for a few days which was last minute but really great. It was so great to put "reality" on the back burner for a while and was a well needed break. We stayed at the Sun Dial Boutique Hotel and enjoyed having a full suite with full kitchen and everything.

Sandy joined us for the first night and took the bus back. We laughed a lot and it was great!


Sandy rolling on the floor laughing as a matter of fact...

Trying on hats.. haha

Lindie pretty sad that she lost to me..

Lindie and I went for a walk/hike in the interpretive forest and we were especially anamored with the suspension bridge. :)

Hahaha.. I love this picture because Lindie does not look happy to be here but i am uber excited! haha

Cartwheels on the suspension Bridge. Of course. Doesn't everyone do that?

LIndie and I enjoying Indian Food for dinner



View from the rooftop hot tub where we spent a lot of our time!! Beautiful views!! We saw the first snowfall in the village. it was beautiful although it didn't stick


And now back to reality!! Sigh! Well, actually only two more classes and then reading break!! YAY for four days off! :)